Purify then Beautify! August 5, 2009

PurificationbeforeBeautification…..

التخلية قبل التخلية

It is a simple concept:You can’t put jewels into a treasure box filled with trash.
You can’t fill Iman in a heart filled with sins.
You can’t enter Ramadan without proper preparation in Sha’baan.

By the last day of Ramadan, our Iman is soaring high. We feel the lightweightedness of being freed from many sins. Over the year, we go up and down with our Iman, but inevitably we gather sins.

If we wait until the first day of Ramadan to unload the sins before replacing it with good deeds and habits and before raising our Iman, we have already lost a great deal of valuable time. The time is NOW, and even that NOW is slipping quickly away.

ما جعل الله لرجل من قلبين في جوفه

Allah has not put for any man two hearts inside his body. (Al-Ahzab: 4)

You cannot expect to raise your Iman’s status without purifying your heart of its diseases, minor as they may be, before hand.

Sunnah Preserved

Anas ibn Maalik said, “If I did not fear that I may make a mistake, I would narrate to you some of the things I heard from the Messenger of God. However, I heard him say, ‘Whoever falsely attributes something to my authority shall take his own seat in the Hell-fire.’”

Ink that dries not…

“Say: ‘If the ocean were ink (wherewith to write out) the words of my Lord, sooner would the ocean be exhausted than would the words of my Lord, even if we added another ocean like it, for its aid.’" [18:109]